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Monday, August 3, 2015

More patterns.................

I finished going through all of my patterns, tossed a few, some will go out for the garage sale, but there were a few I couldn't part with. On the left is the first skirt I made at home after learning to sew in the 1954-55 home ec. class my freshman year. I used our treadle machine and made the view with the ruffle out of a red print. This pattern preceded printed patterns. There were just series of holes punched in the tissue for identification. The western shirt pattern was used many times for shirts for my dad. It is from 1956. On the right is my wedding dress pattern.

28 comments:

I have several old ones also. My Mother had a swing coat pattern that was from the Advance pattern co. She made it several times and loved the coat. Moving as much as we have I purged a lot of things over the years. Chris

I was a sophomore in that year, and remember well those "holey" patterns. MY first "real" home-ec project was an apron, but I remember learning to sew a straight seam by running lined notebook paper under an unthreaded needle. And yes, it was a treadle machine. I think of that when I face my beloved Bernina!!!!

I have your wedding dress pattern too! I made a dress from for a Teachers' College ball. I have a Lott of patterns from my Aunt (who would now be 106) from the 1930s and 1940s. Keep something long enough............ Cheers, Robyn, Australia

Sewing and typing were 2 invaluable skills I learned in school. I have now taught for 45 years and throughout the years have watched home ec eliminated. Think of how valuable knowing how to sew was to all of us; think of the hours of enjoyment from creating something from fabric.

Have you seen this cute tutorial (not mine) for copying a vintage envelope onto printable fabric and making a zipper bag? Those would be so perfect! http://so-sew-easy.com/vintage-envelope-zipper-pouch-print-your-own-fabric/ :)

love your old patterns and to still have the pattern for your wedding dress! how nice. I to wish they still taught how to sew in home ec class, my older sisters and I all had home ec class and loved it - my youngest sister that came 13 years after I never had that class.

Before you toss the patterns take out the tissue paper pattern part. I use the the tissue pattern as you would use any store bought tissue paper when wrapping gifts. It is a great to recycle and quilty friends find it fun to have their gifts wrapped in pattern paper. And of course it is free! Miriam in Texas

HiI think your wedding dress and mine were the same pattern or very similar - mine had a slight V neck and I appliqued lace motifs all down the front and around the hem.I have several of the old patterns too - I think the same apron as you showed. Are we hoarders or what???Beth

They are very special indeed. Just seeing them makes we wish I had kept some of my old patterns over the years. I sewed for my children when they were little - and of course made dresses for myself as a teenager. All a long time ago now.

Oh my, you must have been quite a seamstress even in the fifties to make your own wedding dress and clothes!! Of course you still are, but with quilts! I started sewing clothes myself when I was 12 but not my wedding dress! Thanks for sharing!

I have a really cute "brown lunch bag" size bag made from five laminated old Simplicity and McCall's pattern envelopes. The cost printed on the patterns is $.50, $.60 and $.65. (The two side pieces are smaller and the prices are cut off.) And the sizes 12 w/32 bust and size 14 w/34 bust. One is stamped with July 16, 1962. That would have been three days before I turned 18, and I took at size 7/8 petite. I can only dream.... It is fun to have and look at but I don't use it very often as I am afraid it isn't very durible even though the pattern bags have been laminated and the edges are pinked.